Nine French nationals of Mali origin file a complaint against an adoption agency

House likely to have sheltered children adopted through the Rayon de Soleil association. Hippodrome district, Bamako, Mali, January 3. Matthieu Rosier for “Le Monde”

They are called Marie M., Jean-Noël R., Lise F. or Florent T. *. They were born in Mali about thirty years ago. All of them then became French, adopted through the Paris-based association Le Rayon de soleil de l’Enfant Alien. But under what conditions ? Thirty years after their adoption, this Monday, June 8, they are nine to file a complaint at the tribunal de grande instance of Paris against the French organization and their former correspondent in Mali, Danielle Boudault, for “Scam, concealment of fraud and breach of trust”.

“This case is dramatic. There are still people who have had their identities stolen, children who have been lied to all their lives, and people who are quiet today. The purpose of this complaint is to hold everyone accountable for their responsibilities. The state too, because there has been action at all levels “, said Noémie Saidi-Cottier, one of the complainants’ two lawyers. ” This is not an isolated case, adds Joseph Breham, the second lawyer. Here it is Mali, but other countries are probably affected. This is this association, but there are probably others. We are not on an epiphenomenon, but on something that affects a certain number of French women. “

In this 38-page complaint, containing more than 100 documents, the two French lawyers, members of the Alliance of Lawyers for Human Rights (AADH), detail the main operating mode of the Rayon de soleil and the “Stratagems” implemented to allow “Circumvention of the law” in order to have Malian children adopted in France who, under local law, should not have been.

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Neuf Français d’origine malienne portent plainte contre un organisme d’adoption

Selon les plaignants, l’association Le Rayon de soleil aurait eu recours à des « stratagèmes » pour faire adopter des enfants qui, au regard de la loi, n’auraient pas dû l’être.

Par Morgane Le Cam et Kaourou Magassa Publié hier à 14h06, mis à jour hier à 19h20

Le Mali en proie à ses divisionsLes reportages de TV5MONDE[Collection Reportages]

Adoptions au Mali : en quête de vérité [Collection reportages]

Neuf Français d’origine malienne ont déposé plainte ce 8 juin 2020 contre l’organisme d’adoption Le Rayon de Soleil de l’enfant étranger et son ancienne correspondante au Mali, Danielle Boudault. La plainte a été déposée auprès du tribunal de grande instance de Paris pour "escroquerie, recel d’escroquerie et abus de confiance". Entre 1989 et 2001, 324 enfants maliens ont été envoyés à l'adoption en France par l’association basée à Paris. Parmi eux : Marie, âgée de 32 ans, et Jean-Noël, 35 ans. Sur les traces de leur passé, ils découvrent de faux actes de naissance, des documents falsifiés. De Paris à Bamako en passant par le Luxembourg et la Bretagne, les équipes de TV5MONDE et du journal Le Monde ont enquêté durant près d’un an. Pratiques d’adoptions abusives ou illégales, absences de contrôle, manquements de la justice française, carences de l'administration malienne : reportage et témoignages exclusifs dans ce nouveau numéro de [Collection Reportages] sur ce qui ressemble fort à un scandale à l'adoption.

L'enquête sera publiée dans les colonnes du journal Le Monde des mardi 9 et mercredi 10 juin (datés 10 et 11 juin).

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After their unmarried mothers left, children sometimes spent years in the Paula Foundation transition home. There, toddlers literally became ill from the lack of attention.

This article was written byPetra VissersPublished on June 8, 2020, 7:13 AM

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"I would like to draw your attention to the minor Emmy," writes Frans Josso, psychologist at the Paula Foundation, in chicken-wristed handwriting on blue lined paper. It is the winter of 1968 in Oosterbeek, three days after Sinterklaas. Outside, it is freezing, and a bitter wind blows across the green estate where the home for unmarried mothers stands.

Sellur police rescued a 10-month-old baby boy on Saturday after a complaint of illegal adoption between two families.

Police said the baby, born in last August, was handed over by the parents to a childless couple. Both parties had not followed the established procedures for adoption of children.

They just entered into a written agreement certified by a notary public.

After the issue came to light, Child Welfare Committee member B. Pandiarajan, lodged a complaint.

“The baby has been taken to a government home. Further enquiry is under way,” a police officer said.

We interviewed adoptive parents about the adoption of their child. They wanted to participate anonymously. This interview is not specifically aimed at illegal adoption, but it does show how an adoption works.

The adoptive parents have adopted a girl from Hungary. At first she was told that she only had a developmental delay, but once she was in the Netherlands, she was found to have FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome). This can occur if the mother consumes alcohol during pregnancy. FAS is brain damage and/or damage to the central nervous system, which causes physical and psychological impairments. ( Htt p: //www.fasstichting.nl/)

How do you look back on your child's adoption process?

The process of adopting a child is a long one. If they indicate that they want to adopt a child, you must first follow a course. At the time, this was a six-day course in which all aspects surrounding the adoption of a child were discussed. This course is followed by discussions with the Child Protection Board. After these conversations you will (if all is well) get permission to adopt a child. Once you have permission, you find a brokerage organization and the long wait begins. This is because these organizations are looking for parents for a child that is put up for adoption and not the other way around. In practice, this means that you can, for example, be at the top of the waiting list for four years, but if there is no match with the children that are offered, you will not be assigned that child. With us it was the case that we were still orientating ourselves about the countries for which our mediation organization mediated. When we called with the question whether and for how long the waiting list for Hungary was still open, we were told that this waiting list would remain open for a while, but that if we wanted they already had a child available for us. So that was the world upside down, so to speak. The whole process took about two years, which is very short. We look back on the process with a good feeling, partly because it included a very extensive course. When we called with the question whether and for how long the waiting list for Hungary was still open, we were told that this waiting list would remain open for a while, but that if we wanted they already had a child available for us. So that was the world upside down, so to speak. The whole process took about two years, which is very short. We look back on the process with a good feeling, partly because it included a very extensive course. When we called with the question whether and for how long the waiting list for Hungary was still open, we were told that this waiting list would remain open for a while, but that if we wanted they already had a child available for us. So that was the world upside down, so to speak. The whole process took about two years, which is very short. We look back on the process with a good feeling, partly because it included a very extensive course.

After investigations it appears that your child has FAS, this was not revealed during the adoption procedure. Had this been known, would it have influenced your decision to adopt?

Ludhiana: A biological mother of a baby boy has filed a complaint against the family who “adopted” her child by “paying”

money, asking them to return it, district child welfare officer of Nawanshahar has maintained that it will be the court which will

take decision on the legality of adoption process.

Meanwhile, the baby remains with the adopted parents as the child welfare committee (CWC) has declared them fit to keep the

baby till the matter is decided.

It starts with a relatively innocent question. Three years ago, a cousin of Liesbeth Struijcken (56) asked on Facebook whether their last name is now spelled with an 'ij' or a 'y'. What difference does it make, she thinks. But she still decides to dive into the trunk in the basement containing all her adoption papers. Surely the correct spelling of their last name is in there, she reasons.

Once in her basement, she feels dizzy as she realizes she'd never really looked at the pile of papers before her. Struijcken is adopted; she discovered this by accident at age nine, during a vaccination at school and a name she hadn't known was read aloud. It turned out that the name she hadn't known was hers.

For the first time, she now sees two documents in the basement that she had always overlooked: one in which the Breda Child Protection Council informs her parents that they can have their adopted daughter's personal record rewritten, omitting all information relating to her adoption. The second letter confirms that her information has indeed been destroyed, with the authorization of the Minister of the Interior.

Struijcken is stunned. “I felt utterly betrayed. That identity card is much more than a simple card. It symbolizes that entire adoption history. Your identity card tells you who you are. That's true. Not for me.” Until 1994, the Dutch government kept information about its residents on identity cards; now all that data is stored in the Personal Records Database. 

Personal identity cards of adopted children were permitted to be destroyed after a 1970 ruling by the Council of State. At the request of adoptive parents, the Council ruled that adopted children were entitled to a new personal identity card, on which their biological parents were no longer listed.

Minister grijpt in bij onderzoek naar gedwongen adoptie: Bossche organisatie FIOM buitenspel gezet

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Naar schatting werden zo'n 15.000 kinderen gedwongen afgestaan tussen 1958 en 1984.

Naar schatting werden zo'n 15.000 kinderen gedwongen afgestaan tussen 1958 en 1984.

Het verhaal van ouders die tegen hun zin hun kind hebben afgestaan en van die kinderen zelf, was niet veilig bij het 'aanmeldpunt' dat voor hen is ingericht. Verslagen zijn niet altijd correct opgesteld en de privacy was niet gewaarborgd, erkent verantwoordelijk minister Sander Dekker.

The stories of parents, children and others involved who have reported to the 'Remote and Adoption Application Point' are not properly stored securely at the Ministry of Security and Justice. There has been a data breach and hundreds of conversation reports will be destroyed.

A report has been made to the Dutch Data Protection Authority. This is evident from answers to parliamentary questions from D66 MP Vera Bergkamp.

“Embarrassing”, says Bergkamp about the course of events. “I really don't understand how a research that is so sensitive can be shaped in such a way. When I read that interview reports are circulating at the ministry - the ministry that is actually responsible for privacy - and that there is a lot of catching up to do now that reports have to be submitted again to people who have been interviewed, I really wonder: how could this going so carelessly? ”

The Verwey-Jonker Institute is currently conducting research into distance and adoption between 1956 and 1984. During that period, thousands of women gave up their children, often under great pressure. Some say they have been forced now, decades later. The Remote and Adoption Application Point was opened at the start of the investigation, to give everyone the opportunity to tell their story. More than 670 people have now called that registration point.

The answers to parliamentary questions show that the reports of the conversations held at the hotline were not only sent - anonymously - to the researchers at the Verwey-Jonker Institute, but also to the ministry. That is now going to destroy all records. It is not clear whether those documents are still with the Verwey-Jonker Institute (VJI). In his answers, Minister Sander Dekker writes: “Until now, VJI only keeps the interview reports of those applicants who have been selected for an in-depth interview. From now on, the VJI will keep all interview reports of the registrations and the reports of the in-depth interviews in a secure manner until the completion of the investigation. ”